The Virginia Department of Health is telling us to go ahead and ignore Donald Trump on MMR vaccines, because he doesn’t know anything.
“Virginia’s families should be able to trust that our vaccine recommendations are grounded in the best available science and focused on protecting the health and well-being of their children,” State Health Commissioner Dr. Cameron Webb said in a statement on Tuesday, in a release from VDH that states unequivocally: Trump is a doo-doo head.
OK, VDH doesn’t use those exact words.
Read between the lines, though.
They’re practically screaming it.
“The evidence supporting the AAP immunization schedule is extensive, and we remain confident that following it is one of the best ways to protect children from serious, preventable diseases. VDH will continue to follow the evidence, work with trusted clinical partners, and ensure families have access to the vaccines and reliable information they need,” said Webb, a board-certified internal medicine physician, attorney and public health expert, and former professor at the UVA Medical School and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at UVA.
Donald Trump’s public health credentials: he eats two Big Macs and a Filet-o-Fish for breakfast, with a Baked Apple Pie for dessert.
Trump issued another one of his nonsense executive orders on Monday that calls for splitting the MMR vaccine – for measles, mumps and rubella – into three separate shots.
Nobody in the medical community at the rank above patient thinks this is remotely a good idea; the easily-swayed Trump let himself be talked into issuing the order by his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose medical expertise includes his admission that he used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.
Trump is finally conceding that he knows he can’t run for a third term, but that doesn’t mean he can’t play politics for his underlings, and this executive order sure does smack of trying to give RFK Jr. a leg up among the 2028 contenders for the Republican Party presidential nomination.
The anti-vaxxers will hold outsized sway in the 2028 GOP race, and they’re going to remember that their guy got Trump to stick his thumb in the eyes of the medical establishment on vaccines, which they all are convinced cause childhood autism.
It doesn’t take much to get Trump to do your bidding; RFK Jr. was able to get Trump to tell an interviewer on Real America’s Voice, which apparently is a real cable news TV network, and not at all totally made up, that the one-shot MMR vaccine is akin to a “nuclear weapon,” and made it obvious that he has no idea about anything when he claimed that the government advocates “pumping this massive amount of fluid” into kids which looked “like a Coca-Cola bottle.”
Coca-Cola bottles contain anywhere from 8 to 16 ounces of fluid; the single-shot MMR vaccine is 0.5 milliliters, equivalent to 0.016907 fluid ounces.
Even the 8-ounce bottle would contain 480 times more fluid than the vaccine shot.
The Virginia Department of Health release stresses that the executive order from Trump “does not change vaccine recommendations or school immunization requirements in Virginia.”
“VDH continues to recommend that children are vaccinated in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics 2026 Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule,” the release tells us. ”VDH expects that healthcare providers will continue to rely on their clinical training and professional judgment and consult information published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians when engaging in shared clinical decision-making with parents, caregivers, and patients.”
Our VDH folks obviously know better than to snort anything off a toilet seat.
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Chris Graham
